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‘Red’ Director Robert Schwentke To Direct ‘Divergent’ Sequel ‘Insurgent’ By Angie Han/Feb. 12, 2014 6:00 am EST With Divergent’s release date still weeks away, its sequel Insurgent is taking another big stride forward. Red director Robert Schwentke is set to direct the dystopian YA adventure, which will once again star Shailene Woodley and Theo James. Schwentke replaces original Divergent director Neil Burger, who we learned in December would not return for the follow-up....

‘When Marnie Was There’ Japanese Trailer: Friendship Transcends Boundaries By Russ Fischer/July 18, 2014 3:30 pm EST The first trailer for the new Studio Ghibli movie When Marnie Was There was barely a trailer at all. Rather, it was more of a music video for the film’s primary song, by Priscilla Ahn. Now we’ve got a proper look at the film, in HD, via the When Marnie Was There Japanese trailer....

David Gordon Green And Abi Morgan To Visit ‘Little House On The Prairie’ By Angie Han/Oct. 1, 2012 11:15 am EST Now that David Gordon Green seems to be stepping away from comedies for a bit, he’s opening himself up to all sorts of interesting options. The long-gestating Suspiria remake appears to have been put back on the shelf for now, but he’s got the gritty Southern Nic Cage drama Joe coming up on his radar....

Disney Could Lose $150 Million On ‘The Lone Ranger’ By Angie Han/July 8, 2013 4:45 pm EST After months of trailers, TV spots, posters, and other marketing for The Lone Ranger, it’s easy to forget the movie almost never happened at all. Back in 2011, Disney slammed the brakes over concerns about its over-$250 million budget, and decided to move forward only after director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer trimmed it down to $215 million....

First Look: ‘24: Live Another Day’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 2, 2014 6:41 pm EST

First Look: Nicolas Cage And Tye Sheridan In David Gordon Green’s ‘Joe’ By Angie Han/Feb. 7, 2013 10:00 am EST After a string of comedy projects that began with Pineapple Express, David Gordon Green is pivoting back into drama with Joe. Adapted by Gary Hawkins from the novel by Larry Brown, the film follows an ex-con (Nicolas Cage) who forges an unlikely bond with a troubled teen (Tye Sheridan of Tree of Life, and who was excellent in Mud) in a down-on-its-luck Texas town....

Marisa Tomei To Co-Star In Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 12, 2008 2:31 am EST If Bijou Phillips could act, she’d be Marisa Tomei. When Julianne Moore does nudity, it’s like she’s making a fiery feminist statement with a dash of humor. When Tomei does it, like in the first minute(s) of Sidney Lumet’s sharp Before the Devil Knows Your Dead or in Slums of Beverly Hills, it’s like she’s bringing you some Colgate for your toothbrush and she adores you, sleepily....

Movie Trailer: Priest By Adam Quigley/July 26, 2010 11:30 am EST Attempting to describe the trailer for Priest proved near impossible following its premiere at Comic-Con, but the good news for you guys is that now I don’t have to. Sony Pictures has released the film’s official trailer online, which shows off the film in all its apocalyptic, futuristic, monster-infused glory. Check it out after the break. Previously:Scott Stewart’s action/horror/thriller Priest stars Paul Bettany as a priest who disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece....

Page 2: Pacific Rim, Harry Potter, Patrick Stewart, Breaking Bad, Doctor Who, Edgar Wright, Riddick By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 28, 2013 1:30 pm EST Header Photo: Guillermo del Totoro Jason Reitman on the tradition of taking his movies to Telluride and Toronto6 Filmmaking Tips From Wong Kar-Wai Apocalypse Park t-shirt 25 most anticipated fall festival movies of 2013: ‘Gravity,’ ‘12 Years A Slave,’ ‘Under the Skin’ ‘Pacific Rim’ Is “American Propaganda”, Chinese Military Official Says...

See Footage From Unmade ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ Movie Starring Paul Reubens By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2014 6:00 am EST Walt Disney Productions purchased the film rights to Gary K. Wolf’s novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? shortly after the book’s publication in 1981, and Disney spent many years trying to bring Who Framed Roger Rabbit to the screen. In the early 1980’s, Disney developed test footage with animation director Darrell Van Citters with Paul Reubens voicing Roger Rabbit, Peter Renaday and Mike Gabriel as Eddie Valiant, and Russi Taylor as Jessica Rabbit....

Sony Sets Up ‘Hotel Transylvania 2’ For Fall 2015 Release By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2012 5:10 pm EST Briefly: Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation are setting up a pattern of making satisfying and relatively successful animated films, then moving the sequels into the hands of specially-chosen new creators. The company did it with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, the sequel for which is being directed by a pair of guys who worked on the first movie under original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller....

Star Wars Rebels: Spark Of Rebellion Trailer [Update: See The TV Movie Three Days Early] By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2014 10:25 am EST Update: Disney XD has announced that Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion will premiere three days earlier, on Friday, September 26 2014 for verified users of WATCHDisneyXD.com and the WATCH Disney XD app for smartphones, tablets and connected TVs. The new date will give verified WATCH Disney XD viewers a seven-day exclusive window to watch Star Wars Rebels before the global television debut Friday, October 3 (9:00 p....

Viral Campaign Launches For Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’ By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2011 11:00 am EST Comic Con has turned into a launchpad for viral ad campaigns for upcoming films. This year, the first big one to be found is a very low-key promo for Elysium, the upcoming second film by District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. Given that District 9 got its first massive awareness push at Comic Con a couple years ago,we should have known that Elysium would have some presence this year....

Watch A New Song From ‘Frozen’ In A Making Of ‘Frozen’ Video By Germain Lussier/Feb. 27, 2014 9:07 am EST Even though Frozen is still raking in the bucks at the box office, the Blu-ray hits shelves in a few short weeks. It’s already on digital download, but leading up to March 18 release we’ll surely see some very cool behind the scenes content from the year’s biggest animated film....

Watch A Single Movie Trailer For (Almost) All The Major Releases Of Summer 2013 By Angie Han/April 25, 2013 1:25 pm EST Trailers! Who has time to watch them all? There are something like forty wide releases due out this summer alone. If you assume each trailer runs about two minutes, that’s about an hour and half of your life you’ll never get back. That’s time you could’ve spent actually watching one of these movies....

Watch The First ‘Veronica Mars’ Trailer [Comic-Con 2013] By Angie Han/July 20, 2013 9:40 am EST For longtime fans of Veronica Mars, the sight of Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell promoting the new movie in front of thousands of adoring fans at Hall H felt like a dream come true. Though promises of a cinematic follow-up had been floating for years, it took the support of 900,000 Kickstarter backers to get the film greenlit for real....

‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Sequel To Shoot In May By Angie Han/Jan. 24, 2013 4:33 pm EST A dozen years after the release of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Weinstein Co. is getting ready to make a sequel. Though it’s been a while since we heard about any potential follow-up to Ang Lee’s international hit, it looks like the Weinsteins have quietly been making preparations behind the scenes. Production is on track to begin in May, with a script by John Fusco (The Forbidden Kingdom)....

‘Doctor Who’ 50th Anniversary Trailer: A Tardis Trip Through Fifty Years Of Sci-Fi By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2013 5:30 pm EST If you think the 26th season of The Simpsons is a big deal as far as long-running TV goes (and, sure, it is) consider the fact that next month will see the 50th anniversary of the BBC series Doctor Who. Sure, the show hasn’t run for fifty continuous years, but it has been quite popular during most of the years it aired on television, and is now more popular than ever before....

‘Fast 7’ Will “Retire” Paul Walker’s Character By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2014 2:45 pm EST Producers and execs behind Fast and the Furious 7, along with director James Wan and screenwriter Chris Morgan, had an awful task at the end of last year: figure out how to move forward with the film in the wake of Paul Walker’s death. Much of the film had been shot when Walker’s life was claimed by an auto accident at the end of November, but the actor still had to shoot some of his most significant scenes....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Concept Art Shows VERY DIFFERENT Character Designs… And Nova? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2014 12:15 pm EST Earlier this month, we showed you some Guardians of the Galaxy concept art which revealed Star-Lord’s comic book origins, which were abandoned in the final film. Today we bring you some concept art from earlier in the production process which shows extremely different character designs for our main heroes....